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Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#behind #disappear #happens #interpreter #longer

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#audience #composer #concerts #could #creative

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#formidable #grace #mixture #only #place

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#do you know #get #gone #how #know

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#back #days #everything #film #get

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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